The politics of peace pacts: Technical, monitoring capabilities are but part of the solution to arms control: Attitudes of the superpowers are becoming more crucial

When considering the future of arms control, one must brush Utopian rhetoric aside and accept that nuclear weapons are here to stay, say veteran arms controllers. When Mikhail S. Gorbachev proposes to banish nuclear weapons from the world by the year 2000, when Ronald Reagan declares his intent to render nuclear weapons “impotent and obsolete” experts like Milo Nordyke shake their heads and smile.